Oh yes, but he linked it on the discord chat, thats why I offered him help I know some tools that say to you what dll, file or registry key the game is trying to read or write, maybe we can give it a try

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Oh, I dont see it on discord, I dont know why, but maybe was red and on top here on the forum, im kinda lackadaisical sometimes o.o"

funnily, almost exactly one year later I managed to solve the problem; it was some microsoft dependency software missing; had some all-in-one installer cover it (all visual studio versions are necessary)